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Install Gentoo
| will it have all the waifus
| manjaro is better
| >>Not using Arch
| Try gentoo while you are still in bighschool and are a very lonly person in desperate need to do something with the idle hours available to you. Because you will be waiting epic amounts of time to do, and redo, more than once, anything.
When you will decide to leave Gentoo, it will have taught you well what it really means to waste your time on irrelevancies and you will be sure you would never want to see it again. Ever.
| Sorry guys but can i have a quick description of what gentoo is?
| Sorry guys just kidding i know what it is i just wanted to get you triggered.
| I know this is what i wanted
| >>249342
I've unironically been a Gentoo user for about a year. It's been hella fun. But after a while my whole system started to be a mess and I started to look elsewhere. NixOS solved alot of problems I had with Gentoo (also saves time). Definitely worth checking out (nothing for brainlets though). Ascended beings will fall in love instantly.
| >>249342
Can a 30 year old brainlet start and learn? Or am I too old to start the best ways of life on hardware?
| Can someone explain to me what gentoo is
| >>251177 Yes, no doubt. But I think that starting with Gentoo (>>251746 it is a linux distro that does not really exist in binary format or image. Everything you get is sourcecode and you compile it directly on the hardware it is being installed) will take your focus away from the big picture and have you deal with every detail imaginable. It potentially will wear you out waiting for the endless compilations instead of learning what everything is and how they are used.
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| > non using OpenBSD
| >>250061
Arch has never been a minimalist distribution. Splitting packages is rare compared to other distributions, and dependencies aren't made optional whenever possible. Arch has *never* been minimalist... a Linux kernel with every module available and every feature enabled at least when there's no non-bloat related cost, feature-packed/complex GNU tools, nearly all optional features enabled across all the packages, etc.
| Additionally;
>pacman is fast but not safe, it tends to break shit and config protection is implemented in a terrible way
>there is no official process to verify that a package is stable within the distro, in other distros a lot of packages are in a testing repo despite that specific package's developer claiming it to be stable on its own, because it might not be stable within the environment of a specific distro
| >(arch v gentoo related) arch users complain about 'muh compile time' when it comes to gentoo, while in fact they compile a lot of AUR packages themselves, namely the *- git packages that pull the source from a git repo
| >but it gets even better: they only compile a handful of packages, and those not being libraries mostly, the self-compiled packages get linked against precompiled libraries from a different setup (e.g. different optimization levels), which can then cause even more instability because it's a clusterfuck of unequal shit
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| Arch never claimed to be stable
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| Install Gentoo
Install right now and get an x220 thinkpad or T60 for maximum comfy cyberpunk posting